Evangelism: Preaching the Monkey Off Their Backs

When Toni walked into the old Georgian
house on the edge of the slum-ridden Bedford-Stuyvesant section of
Brooklyn, she was on the brink of hopelessness. At 31, she was not long
out of jail, had no job, no money, and eight years of prostitution and
drug addiction behind her. "I didn't know about this religion bit
they had there," she said. "But man, I was ready to try
anything." It is now four months later, and Toni appears to have
beat off despair. Her eyes are bright, her health is back, and her...